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A medicated empire : the pharmaceutical industry and modern Japan / Timothy M. Yang.

LIBRA HD9672.J29 Y354 2021
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Yang, Timothy M., 1981- author.
Contributor:
Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
Series:
Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Hoshi Pharmaceuticals--History.
Hoshi Pharmaceuticals.
Pharmaceutical industry--Japan--History--20th century.
Pharmaceutical industry.
History.
Japan.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:
xvi, 335 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Place of Publication:
Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2021.
Summary:
"This book is a business history of a transnational Japanese pharmaceutical company in the early twentieth century, Hoshi Pharmaceuticals, and a commodity history of its involvement in opium, quinine, and consumer medicines in both Japan and its expanding empire"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: pt. I THE DRUG INDUSTRY, ENTREPRENEURSHIP, AND THE STATE
1. A Strategic Industry
2. The Supposed Self-Made Man and His Company
pt. II MARKETING MEDICINES AND MEDICINAL INFRASTRUCTURES
3. Marketing a Culture of Self-Medication
4. Medicinal Infrastructures and Medical Missionaries
pt. III THE OPIUM EMPIRE
5. The Scandal of Opium (and the Colonial Exception)
6. Things Fall Apart
pt. IV SCIENCE, SELF-SUFFICIENCY, AND WARTIME MOBILIZATION
7. Selling the Science of Quinine Self-Sufficiency
8. War and Drugs.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Local Notes:
Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
Other Format:
Online version: Yang, Timothy M., 1981- A medicated empire.
ISBN:
9781501756245
1501756249
OCLC:
1202730807

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